A Domino server can be configured in so many different ways to focus on whatever the server's doing, that it may be difficult to find out.

I've seen recommendations to "watch the drive size & errors", but I haven't seen a description of just what those entries are.

And I'd love to know how much time the server is taking to update FT indexes (or refresh views) ... but I haven't been able to track that down.

Thanks for the response Mike.

I am arranging to speak with a Domino Developer consultant within my company, if I find out anything useful I will post back here, the company I support mainly use their Domino infrastructure for email, all applications/databases are supported by the company themselves.

Any other information is always welcome.

Thanks

I've forgotten the name of the monitoring tool that was being used at the last place I was an administrator (I'm a notes developer now in my current job and appreciate not having to do cell-duty)

The things we monitored were:

1. Whether the server was up (Ping test)
2. Number of messages in the routing mail boxes.

Item 2 involved a process that could look into the mail{n}.box databases. If we start accumulating more than 20-30 messages, then there's likely a routing/connection issue with the servers. They only did mail servers so the process of distributing new users was pretty automated and disk space wasn't a big concern. (They were using i-series IBM servers which were pretty beefy)

Thanks Mark, I was sent this link (which is more for SolarWinds monitoring); https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-164264

It also contains a SolarWinds template (not much use for the monitoring system we use) but it gives me an idea on where i can start, will just need to find the equivalent monitor OID in the product we have. At least this link also gives me a brief description of what the monitor is and what it does, I have been sent a list with 800 but no description, I will figure it out.

I plan to review them, see what I can maybe match up with certain Domino terminologies, such as router, mailbox etc, I will enable them but not to alert, then I'll generate a report after a few days and see if I can work out some sort of average threshold to set them to.

Thanks a lot for your help, if anyone does have anymore then feel free to post.